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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544591" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> XAMPPRocky <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544591">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:43)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="116009">@nikomatsakis</span> On dropbox paper alternatives: It might be worth trying hackmd, they just added support for rendering visualisations in documents in JSON using Vega, which can use Google Sheets as a data source. <a href="https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/" target="_blank" title="https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/">https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544604" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544604">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:43)</a>:</h4>
<p>hmm, maybe</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544613" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544613">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:43)</a>:</h4>
<p>my main concern with hackmd has been their comment system is very ungood</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544689" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544689">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:44)</a>:</h4>
<p>to be more specific, it's not obvious to most people how to add comments, replying is sort of awkward, and there's no "Resolve" button to clear away comments en masse (only way I found to remove them is manually deleting them)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544698" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544698">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:44)</a>:</h4>
<p>in general, the collaboration workflow feels pretty limited</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544720" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544720">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:45)</a>:</h4>
<p>oh and</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544731" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544731">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:45)</a>:</h4>
<p>scrolling when in "mixed mode" doesn't work well for me, it moves in jumps and starts, and sometimes sort of refuses to scroll down and I have to keep trying, and then it scrolls me back up again</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544753" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> XAMPPRocky <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544753">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:45)</a>:</h4>
<p>I definitely agree with that. I think colloboration workflow is Dropbox Papers strong point.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544772" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544772">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:45)</a>:</h4>
<p>yeah. collaboration is good, but scaling is poor, and markdown export doesn't work very well (partly markdown's fault; it can't express some things afaict that dropbox paper would need)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544822" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544822">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:46)</a>:</h4>
<p>anyway... this is OT for this topic I guess :)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188544861" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188544861">(Feb 19 2020 at 13:46)</a>:</h4>
<p>broke out into separate topic :)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration%20document%20alternatives/near/188548942" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> XAMPPRocky <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/214615-t-community/rust-survey-2019/topic/collaboration.20document.20alternatives.html#188548942">(Feb 19 2020 at 14:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>I have made a spreadsheet and I'm putting in any data that's mentioned in the outline. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xBRdh7_5d3Gd-gycR1RbCfaSdtM-uasuTdMRlRFUCHs/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xBRdh7_5d3Gd-gycR1RbCfaSdtM-uasuTdMRlRFUCHs/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xBRdh7_5d3Gd-gycR1RbCfaSdtM-uasuTdMRlRFUCHs/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>



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